Gun Control is Completely Useless.

Tecumsehsbones

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Not much of an excuse but I am constantly doing battle with a "smart" Android program that "anticipates" what it thinks that you are trying to say. I have to edit garbled words in every single post. It has taken snine edits to get this one into postable condition and I still regularly miss mistakes. (It just turned "postable" ... a made-up word into "portable"). I haven't anything but his tblet to post on the internet for a good year. It has its challenges.
Argh! I HATE those!
 

DaSleeper

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Not much of an excuse but I am constantly doing battle with a "smart" Android program that "anticipates" what it thinks that you are trying to say. I have to edit garbled words in every single post. It has taken snine edits to get this one into postable condition and I still regularly miss mistakes. (It just turned "postable" ... a made-up word into "portable"). I haven't anything but his tblet to post on the internet for a good year. It has its challenges.
Dunno what kind of tablet you have but most android must be similar in configuration..
In setting go to language and input>then keyboard and input methods, you should have keyboard settings feature there>Deselect or switch off "predictive text"
 

B00Mer

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Which ironically will make them criminals. :wink:

Think about the OP. Smuggling firearms across an international border. Oh no, nothing even remotely criminal about that. You can't even bring alcohol produced in Canada and exported to the US back across without declaring it ffs.

Well, physically you can but at least if you get caught it doesn't result in an arrest and criminal record.

Of course it's illegal... but it's happening like crazy, and more often than you think..

The Police uncover one Gun ring, there is another 10 taking t's place over night. I know of several places in Vancouver you can purchase a gun and amo without licenses or ID.. Big Cash.

Handguns, assault rifle seized as police crack gun trafficking ring

Eventually it will end up like marijuana, just legalize it, make sure everyone is licensed and ring in the taxes. Same crap with prostitution too..
 

Cliffy

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Of course it's illegal... but it's happening like crazy, and more often than you think..

The Police uncover one Gun ring, there is another 10 taking t's place over night. I know of several places in Vancouver you can purchase a gun and amo without licenses or ID.. Big Cash.

Handguns, assault rifle seized as police crack gun trafficking ring

Eventually it will end up like marijuana, just legalize it, make sure everyone is licensed and ring in the taxes. Same crap with prostitution too..
Here's one for ya Boomer:



This should give ya a chubby.
 

bluebyrd35

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Boomer ...
Not so funny. If we judged all gun owners by such standards, you would come up wanting. How many times have you stated that Canadians should be allowed to carry guns as a right?? That coming from someone such as yourself, make most normal people shudder. You make no bones about how you feel about shooting anyone you feel is in the least threatening. You, on the subject of guns, is much like listening to the demented rhetoric of radicalized persons who threaten beheading and bombing the "infidels" Muslims are your infidels!!
 

JamesBondo

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Just thought I would post this once more. I am sure it will not be taken seriously, after all if one has a gun, one is protected right??

Debunking the Defensive Gun Use Myth | Armed With Reason

Please try to keep up.

Your article was debunked by a study commissioned by Obama in response to Sandy Hook

Though statistics prove time and again that disarming a free people leads to more violent crime and the potential for mass government democide, it hasn’t stopped President Barrack Obama and his Congressional entourage from doing everything in their power to make it more difficult for Americans to legally own firearms.

Citing the Sandy Hook mass shooting last year, democrats on the hill have claimed that we must restrict gun ownership and strip the Second Amendment for the safety of our children and the general public.

But a new report commissioned by the White House titled Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-related Violence suggests what many self defense gun proponents have been saying for years. The report, ordered under one of President Obama’s 23 Executive Orders signed in the wake of the Sandy Hook incident, asked the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Research Council and other federal agencies to identify the “most pressing problems in firearms violence.”

To the surprise of the authors and those who would no doubt have used the report to further restrict access to personal defense firearms, the study found that gun ownership actually saves lives and those who have a firearm at their disposal improve their chances of survival and reduce their chance of injury in the event they are confronted by a violent criminal:

Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year…



The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.

A different issue is whether defensive use of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self protective strategies.

Full Study available at the National Academy of SciencesPriorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence | The National Academies Press

quote was trimmed so here it is in its entirety:

Though statistics prove time and again that disarming a free people leads to more violent crime and the potential for mass government democide, it hasn’t stopped President Barrack Obama and his Congressional entourage from doing everything in their power to make it more difficult for Americans to legally own firearms.

Citing the Sandy Hook mass shooting last year, democrats on the hill have claimed that we must restrict gun ownership and strip the Second Amendment for the safety of our children and the general public.

But a new report commissioned by the White House titled Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-related Violence suggests what many self defense gun proponents have been saying for years. The report, ordered under one of President Obama’s 23 Executive Orders signed in the wake of the Sandy Hook incident, asked the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Research Council and other federal agencies to identify the “most pressing problems in firearms violence.”

To the surprise of the authors and those who would no doubt have used the report to further restrict access to personal defense firearms, the study found that gun ownership actually saves lives and those who have a firearm at their disposal improve their chances of survival and reduce their chance of injury in the event they are confronted by a violent criminal:

Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year…



The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.

A different issue is whether defensive use of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self protective strategies.

Full Study available at the National Academy of SciencesPriorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence | The National Academies Press
 

Colpy

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Please try to keep up.

Your article was debunked by a study commissioned by Obama in response to Sandy Hook



quote was trimmed so here it is in its entirety:

Though statistics prove time and again that disarming a free people leads to more violent crime and the potential for mass government democide, it hasn’t stopped President Barrack Obama and his Congressional entourage from doing everything in their power to make it more difficult for Americans to legally own firearms.

Citing the Sandy Hook mass shooting last year, democrats on the hill have claimed that we must restrict gun ownership and strip the Second Amendment for the safety of our children and the general public.

But a new report commissioned by the White House titled Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-related Violence suggests what many self defense gun proponents have been saying for years. The report, ordered under one of President Obama’s 23 Executive Orders signed in the wake of the Sandy Hook incident, asked the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Research Council and other federal agencies to identify the “most pressing problems in firearms violence.”

To the surprise of the authors and those who would no doubt have used the report to further restrict access to personal defense firearms, the study found that gun ownership actually saves lives and those who have a firearm at their disposal improve their chances of survival and reduce their chance of injury in the event they are confronted by a violent criminal:

Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year…



The estimate of 3 million defensive uses per year is based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys. The former estimate of 108,000 is difficult to interpret because respondents were not asked specifically about defensive gun use.

A different issue is whether defensive use of guns, however numerous or rare they may be, are effective in preventing injury to the gun wielding crime victim. Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was “used” by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self protective strategies.

Full Study available at the National Academy of SciencesPriorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence | The National Academies Press

Link please.
 

Bar Sinister

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bluebyrd35

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LOL your research is on a par with this one

Give Me Liberty, and Give Me Death! | HorsesAss.Org

It is possible to find all kinds of verifying crap on Google, but for the crap to mean anything depends on how and by whom the data is collected. Extrapolating a couple of numbers from 10 to 20 people to a couple of million is not an accurate statistic, particularly if one is able to choose which 10 to 12 people to start with. You know like 10 carpenters out of 12 recommend stickum glue without mentioning those 10 carpenters are working for the "stickum glue co.".

By the way, I wonder who's idea it was to use the DCCenter stats to collect the information?? Of course, their stats on guns are very limited these day. This due to the cut back in funding instituted by the Republicans on pressure from the NRA many years ago by the exact amount it took to collect all the data on gun violence. Now why do YOU think the NRA did not want a fool proof way of collecting stats on gun violence???